For the record, alcohol does not "alter antifreeze chemicals and allow them to be flushed out of an animals body" - it competes with ethylene glycol for alcohol dehydrogenase, and thus interrupts the chain of reactions that transforms antifreeze into toxic metabolites. (Yes, I had to say that.)
Science slam dunk award!
8 posted on 03/09/2014 10:10:34 PM PDT by Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)